On 3/9/24 18:07, Peter Maydell wrote:
Now we have removed all the board types that it covers, we can move
the text about old Arm boards from deprecated.rst to
removed-features.rst, tweaking it appropriately.
Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@linaro.org>
---
docs/about/deprecated.rst | 15 ---------------
docs/about/removed-features.rst | 15 +++++++++++++++
2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
diff --git a/docs/about/removed-features.rst b/docs/about/removed-features.rst
index fc7b28e6373..815d63f5941 100644
--- a/docs/about/removed-features.rst
+++ b/docs/about/removed-features.rst
@@ -978,6 +978,21 @@ Nios II ``10m50-ghrd`` and ``nios2-generic-nommu``
machines (removed in 9.1)
The Nios II architecture was orphan.
+Arm machines ``akita``, ``borzoi``, ``cheetah``, ``connex``, ``mainstone``, ``n800``, ``n810``, ``spitz``, ``terrier``, ``tosa``, ``verdex``, ``z2`` (removed in 9.2)
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+
+QEMU included models of some machine types where the QEMU code that
+emulates their SoCs was very old and unmaintained. This code was
+blocking our ability to move forward with various changes across
+the codebase, and over many years nobody has been interested in
+trying to modernise it. We don't expect any of these machines to have
Note, sx1 also contains "code blocking our ability to move forward
with various changes across the codebase".
+a large number of users, because they're all modelling hardware that
+has now passed away into history. We are therefore dropping support
+for all machine types using the PXA2xx and OMAP2 SoCs. We are also
+dropping the ``cheetah`` OMAP1 board, because we don't have any
+test images for it and don't know of anybody who does; the ``sx1``
+and ``sx1-v1`` OMAP1 machines remain supported for now.
I'd remove the "the ``sx1`` and ``sx1-v1`` OMAP1 machines remain
supported for now." part which doesn't seem so relevant in the
removed-features.rst file.
Otherwise,
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <phi...@linaro.org>
